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DORA Metrics: We’ve Been Using Them Wrong

I’m a big advocate for the DORA 4 metrics. When used in the right context, they’re a powerful tool to drive engineering improvement. But, as a community, we’re...

Product

5 Ways to Have Better Daily Scrum Meetings

The ideal daily scrum is concise and meaningful. After all, it’s just a check-in that’s time-boxed for 15 minutes. However, if you’re able to get...

Eng. Metrics

Change Failure Rate: What Is It and What Is a Good Rate?

In this post, you’ll learn about change failure rate. You’ll see how it’s measured, learn what’s a good rate, and what to do with...

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Cycle Time Breakdown: Tactics For Reducing Deploy Time

Dive into the 4th cycle time phase: deploy time. Learn what an elite deploy time is and how to start improving yours.

Eng. Metrics

How to Improve Your Code Quality Metrics

Bugs. They’re a fact of life for software developers – over a third of developers spend 25% of their time fixing bugs! Although bugs are inevitable, there are...

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Code Smells: What Are They And How Can I Prevent Them?

What is a code smell? In this post we will find that out and also discuss prevent them from occurring in the first place.

The 10 Best Code Quality Tools

Bugs, logical mistakes, resource-draining variables. Whatever form they might take, finding the bugs hidden in a snippet of code can be tricky. But the quality...

Eng. Metrics

6 Tips to Improve Your Sprint Retrospective Meeting

You’ve finished your sprint. Phew! 😅 It was an intense week, two weeks, or month. No doubt, there are things that could’ve gone better, as well as things that...

Product

Modern Sprint Planning Tools: Improve Planning Accuracy

Modern Sprint planning tools such as LinearB’s Project Delivery Tracker can help improve planning accuracy to predict delivery.

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DORA Metrics: We’ve Been Using Them Wrong

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